Movers and Makers Staging Ageing

Hello. We’re Grand Gesture, a gang of older dance artists in London, making and performing works about later life. Our mantra is: embrace imperfection, be authentic, and have fun.

Learn more about us in this documentary by pioneering Swedish film-maker Anders Larsson.

RITE OF AUTUMN

View live recording.

Interview by acclaimed filmmaker Anders Larsson where Bruce Currie talks about Grand Gesture's Rite of Autumn.

HAPPY EVER OLDER

‘Happy Ever Older’ is an original musical fairy tale based on the symbolic themes of little-known elder folk tales, which offer guidance on how to transition into a good old age. In our story a queen is condemned for being too old. She is thrown out of her royal life and left to die alone in a dark forest. Can a silver fox, an elder tree and an ageing caterpillar save her? Watch and find out!

“Great fun. And marvellously DIY.

Reminded me of 1980s Derek Jarman.”

Rose Rouse, Founder of Advantages of Age.

We love living

A big hand for our amazing supporters

David Dutfield, composer, musician

Alice Mills, composer

Louise Scapin, production assistant

Lucy Bennett, dance researcher

Patrick Ross Webster, dance artist 

The Blair Academy

Vilma Laryea, photographer

Laura Hinski, photographer

Rehearsal space:

Theatre Deli

Studio Wayne McGregor

Trinity Laban

Dance East

Let’s do something together!